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Straight_Shooter wrote:
All I can say to this is I love to see and hear well directed rage about the injustices that are continuously foisted upon us by illigitimate government . . . this is exactly why the founders gave us the right to elect those who make the laws in this country, and why we must work to put the courts back into their Pandora's box so that they are stripped of their current, extraconstitutional "power" to make law from the bench.
There is only ONE gubernatorial candidate this year in Iowa that will stand up to runaway courts and bureacracies . . . BVP. TB has already stated that he doesn't believe that the executive can countermand an order of the state SC . . .Unbelieavable! a candidate for the top executive post in the state believes that the supreme executive power resides in the courts!!!
If you want to start turning the tide in this state against the tyrannical powers that be, vote in the June primary for BVP . . . otherwise, in the future, it will only be "business as usual."
SS
Now I understand why you're supporting Vander Plaats. It was somewhat about guns,but itis more about
Varnum v. Brien and attempting to overturn their ruling in that case using an extra-constitutional and unlawful executive order. Such anexecutive order, presumably would allow County Recorders to refuse to issue licenses, and if a County Recorder follows their oath to to the Iowa constitution, the only way to stop those marriage licenses from being issued is to order their arrest and removal by force.
I must point out a statement made by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in his dissent on denial of rehearing
en banc for
Silveira v. Lockyer:
My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed -- where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees*. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.
Every state is required to have a republican form of government under our US Constitution. The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled on the issue of exclusion of marriage from those who are of the same gender under the provisions of the Iowa constitution. They are the final authority on what the Iowa Constitution means, until the Legislature passes a constitutional amendment and it is voted on by the people to overturn their ruling and decision. There is a proper procedure for amending the constitution, which must be followed. It must be passed by two Legislative sessions (2011-2012 and 2013-2014 sessions) and then voted on by the people of the state.
Robert Vander Plaats isan authoritarian tyrant-in-waiting. Even if you believe the Iowa Supreme Court made the wrong call in
Varnum, responding with a tyrranical executive order which can only be effectively enforced by arresting and removing by force county recorders who are following the
Varnum ruling is not the way to go.
Will Iowa citizens defend their own constitution and invoke the Doomsday Provision which is part of the 2A, and forcibly remove using the force of arms a Governor Vander Plaats who is actively enforcing an
ultra vires executive order? One would hope that doesn't come to pass. There would be bloodshed, especially spilled by the minority who would be most effected by such an order, some of who are former combat veterans who honorably served our country. Guns will be used by those who unlawful following the governors orders, and guns will be used by those who uphold the constitution of the State of Iowa. The forces of constitutional liberty versus the forces of executive authoritarian tyrrany. Families would lose their husbands, their wives, their children, and their parents over a pure political grandstanding.
A vote for Vander Plaats is a vote for tyrrany, bloodshed, and needless death. You can't be pro-gun and support other violations of the state and United States constitutions at the same time, for if they don't like the fact that those resisting your tyrrany have guns, they will take them away from the people too.